CHINA / National
Income system reform targets equality
(China Daily)
Updated: 2006-07-07 06:02
National advisors yesterday agreed to put reforming and standardizing
China's income distribution system at the top of their priorities.
Reforming the system is very important to China as the country's economic
reforms are at critical juncture, participants at a symposium, which
included non-Communist parties and the All-China Federation of Industry
and Commerce, agreed.
President Hu Jintao, also general secretary of the Central Committee of
the Communist Party of China (CPC), presided over the Beijing symposium
where different bodies gave their opinions on the upcoming reform of the
income distribution system.
A release from the symposium said the CPC would "seriously consider and
absorb" their comments and advice, which Hu said was "full of insight."
Calling the reforms "an important issue in China's political and economic
life," Hu said in a speech that the CPC Central Committee would strive to
defend social equality and close the wealth gap by raising the incomes of
the low-paid, expanding the size of middle classes, wiping out
illegitimate incomes and putting a curb on excessively high salaries.
A source close to the meeting said reforming the payment system for civil
servants is high on the agenda.
The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee also recently discussed
the income distribution system.
It agreed that more attention should be paid to social equity so that
everyone can enjoy the fruits of reform and socialist modernization.
There is currently a substantial income gap between the rich and poor.
According to government statistics the richest people, accounting for 10
per cent of urban dwellers, own 45 per cent of the total urban wealth.
While the poorest 10 per cent of urban dwellers only have 1.4 per cent.
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